Louis CK’s stand-up comedy documentary (that is, a documentary that mostly features Louis CK doing stand up), Hilarious premiered in New York last night, and while I wasn’t there, our totally undeserving son-of-a-bitch part-time video editor Oliver was. As you might expect, Louis CK said more awesome things than could fit in one post, so we’ve got half here and half over at Asylum. Probably most timely was CK’s take on appearing on the Tonight Show with Bristol Palin just a day after calling her mother a “f*cking jackoff c*nt face jazzy wondergirl,” as well as opining, “I want to rub my father’s c*ck all over Sarah Palin’s fat tits” on Twitter.

I went to The Tonight Show and the other guest is Bristol Palin, [Sarah Palin’s] daughter. It was weird because when you’re confronted with an actual human being, it’s different… she walked towards me, and we’re on Television and I didn’t put my hand out because I didn’t know if she had read [the tweets]… I watched the side of her head as she talked to Jay Leno and that was weird. It was weird anyway without my tweeting. It was weird to sit next to Hitler’s daughter, who is famous for having a baby too early in her life…She was really scared [about being on the show]. She’s just a f-ckin’ person she’s not a celebrity….so I said to her, “Hey, you did a good job, that’s not easy” and she said “Thank you I really appreciate that” and then when she danced she asked me to dance with them. So I kinda stood there while they danced. It was weird… I won’t forget it.

Aw, that’s neat, I guess. Louis CK remains quotable as always, but… I don’t know. I guess I was hoping for something a little… juicier. Like Sarah Palin’s fat tits, or my father’s c*ck. More of the Q & A after the jump.

On his evolution as a comedian:
I’ve just grown up I think. I used to just try to be funny, so I’d think of things to talk about and a lot of them were just stale dry subjects and I’d try to apply some cleverness… But that was important; the stuff that I did early taught me how to forge material. And then I grew up and had a f*cked up life and was given things to talk about.

On having his FX Show Louis renewed for a second season
They said we’re doing another season and I was like “Are you high?”

On naming his latest standup movie Hilarious
I’ll own it, it’s funny, f*ck everybody, it’s hilarious. I’m a professional comedian so it’s not weird for me to say that I’m very funny. It’s not arrogant. People laugh so there’s a very measurable funniness.

On training as a boxer to prepare for his stand-up specials
Training as a boxer for standup… it turned out to be smart because with boxing you have to think really clearly under duress. You really have to be smart and make quick fast improvisational plans and be able to be really lucid and calm and exact, under huge pressure and punishment. Obviously stand-up is way easier than boxing …but I sparred with guys, got the sh*t beat out of me a little bit, and it was fun… I like it.

On why he prefers creative freedom to a big paycheck and people who bitch about networks
I don’t really care about money that much. This kind of work is really a bummer if you’re not enjoying it. It’s hard work, TV shows and movies and stuff, it’s not as hard as any other job, but it hurts to put stuff out that you don’t believe in; it really hurts. Even at HBO I didn’t feel totally able to do what I wanted to. But everything you do… you sign a [contract] and you know the terms. So no one has any right to complain. Anyone who says, “They f*cked my show up” well, no, you signed a contract that said they had a right to decide everything for you, so it’s your choice.

On why he chose to shoot Hilarious in Milwaukee
I don’t like austere theaters. I don’t like standup specials where the person’s showing off how cool they are and there’s a mirrored floor and a chandelier, I don’t think that’s funny.
And the people in Milwaukee, they just drink their Pabsts [Blue Ribbon] and they come down, and they’ll laugh and they’ll entertain any idea. They’re very open minded and you wouldn’t think so because we’re here [in New York City] and “we’re better than everybody” …I had been playing the inside of the country a lot so I wanted to let them represent the show.

On writing, directing and editing his own work and the cruel irony of YouTube
I always wanted to make movies since I was a kid. As I came up as a standup, any time I had any money I would throw it at making little short movies; I would put them on Youtube; they’d be seen about fifteen times each. So a video of my dog would be seen three million times in one day but these lovingly crafted 16 millimeter movies…nobody gives a sh*t and I can’t really watch them anymore either.

On friends who are also comics
Old friends, they become extremely valuable. I know a lot of comedians who have killed themselves. I know a lot of comedians who have died, who have quit the business; there’s not a lot of people left around that I even know.

Join The Discussion

"Louis CK on Bristol Palin: 'It was weird to sit next to Hitler's daughter.'"

09.10.10 at 4:54 pm

ChinoMoreno

People in Milwaukee drink their Paps?? I just have mine sent to the lab.

09.10.10 at 4:58 pm

Jirish

Ugh, I new there was a reason why PBR has a nasty aftertaste.

09.10.10 at 4:59 pm

Jirish

Knew*

Don’t you hate when you see a typo after you hit the submit button?

/wrists

09.10.10 at 5:00 pm

klwillis45

That’s not a typo. That’s a commentary on how douchebag hipsters have smeared the good name of a once proud beer.
*chugs a Schlitz*

09.10.10 at 5:04 pm

Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

I’m usually sitting when single mothers give me a dance.

09.10.10 at 5:07 pm

Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

‘It was weird to sit next to Hitler’s daughter.’

Levi Johnston couldn’t argree more. Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler.

09.10.10 at 5:09 pm

Jirish

You can get famous for having children too young? If you need me I’ll be unblocking a few phone numbers.

09.10.10 at 5:17 pm

HoHosWeKnows

The only person he can think to talk shit about is Sarah Palin after being that close to Jay Leno? Damn, Louis. You’ve changed.

09.10.10 at 5:22 pm

Crapbasket

Lucky Louis was insainly funny at times, especially whenever Louis and Jim Norton were playing off of each other, but Louis couldn’t act for shit. Nor could Jim, or asny of the other comedians he got on the show. He was way stiff and bland. I get it, he was just being himself basically, but it didn’t work. The best thing was that on HBO you can get away with damn near anything. Now, in Louis he has improved about 137.56% as an actor, or more accurately in how he relates himself to the audience, but is now shackled, to a degree, by being on cable. Anyways, he’s still one of the funniest guys out there right now and he had the balls to call the pope a pedophile on The Daily Show. <3

09.10.10 at 5:27 pm

Crapbasket

Actually I think he called the pope a “kid fucker.”

09.10.10 at 5:28 pm

Wayne Jetski

Sorry Blintz but as much as I love Louis CK, seeing Hilarious tomorrow night, if he was strapped in C4 in that clip I would detonate it to kill Louis, Leno and Piven

09.10.10 at 5:42 pm

Donkey Hodey

I always figured that Louis CK on Bristol Palin would sound more like “UUUNNGGGGGHHHH NNNNNNNGGGGGUUUUUUUHHHHHH, oh…oh…. NNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH… yeaaaaaaaaaaah. bitch, thanks”

09.10.10 at 5:45 pm

Patty Boots

I am just dying to use “fucking jackoff cunt faced jazzy wondergirl” in real life. DYING.

It’s glorious.

09.10.10 at 5:58 pm

ChinoMoreno

PATTY!!! You kiss your mother with that mouth?!?

09.10.10 at 6:12 pm

Donkey Hodey

Postscript: That’s also what Trig Palin sounds like when you ask her to talk about her big sister.

09.10.10 at 6:16 pm

MenaceIISobriety

It’s time to bury Hitler. Queue the NAACP marching band.

09.10.10 at 6:22 pm

Patty Boots

Don’t tell Facebook!!!

09.10.10 at 6:33 pm

Dingus

I think when you get down to it, Hitler wasn’t a half-bad chap… Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a different story.

I would say to her, in the spirit of Lloyd Bentsen, “Sarah, you are no Adolf Hitler!” (*slams fist on table in indignation*)

09.10.10 at 6:45 pm

Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

What’s funny about naming a retard Trig is that trig makes me feel like a retard.

09.10.10 at 7:19 pm

GoldenOne

I love Louis C K, but Jaw Leno giggling through the whole clip made it almost unbearable to watch.

09.10.10 at 8:38 pm

Dingus

It was so compassionate of Ms. Palin to raise Trig rather than abort him, because, you know, forcing helpless children to live a tortured, miserable existence in a defective body with a half-wit mind is the merciful thing to do… Who wouldn’t want to be born with Down syndrome, I ask? They sure “look” happy, don’t they?

09.10.10 at 8:47 pm

Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

She should take her vagina and shove it up her ass.

09.10.10 at 8:52 pm

Moose

a tortured, miserable existence in a defective body with a half-wit mind

That hasn’t stopped Stephanie Meyers.

09.10.10 at 9:12 pm

Deranged Drunken Tailgater

I agree with you Dingus about mercifully putting down those with horrible mental handicaps. I think I remember reading something about a very famous historical figure who had a similar vision, but for the life of me I can’t quite recall who? I wanna say he was big in the 1930s and 40s, in Europe, but don’t quote me on that.

09.10.10 at 10:07 pm

KingoftheMonsters

^Groucho Marx? Seriously though, if you’re going to “subtly” mention Hitler, make sure he hasn’t already been a discussion topic since the original post was made. Besides, if we don’t have eugenics, how will Khan Noonien Singh ever come to power?

09.11.10 at 2:12 am

Burnsy

WHY DON’T YOU JUST FUCKING MARRY OLIVER, VINCE???

*jumps out the window, lands on a pinball machine, gets raped by Bobby Hacker*

09.11.10 at 1:43 pm

Deranged Drunken Tailgater

Sorry King. I thought since that weird looking ginger pictured at the top had already invoked Godwin’s Law anything was a go.

09.11.10 at 2:40 pm

Crapbasket

åPłüÿ, I laughed so hard at that line I damn near threw up, had to pause the DVR and grab the little trash can and everything. Found a peanut M&M in the can too, so… :9)

09.11.10 at 2:40 pm

Crapbasket

Oh and, fuck work on Saturday and FUCK MIKE!

09.11.10 at 8:17 pm

Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

Calling her Hilter is harsh. Hitler was smart.

09.13.10 at 2:12 am

Morton Salt

Sorry Trig, now that I know about Tacocat, you’re no longer my favorite Palin ‘drome.

09.13.10 at 11:10 am

Squabbler

See, it’s funny because Hitler killed six million Jews, and Sarah Palin had an unsuccessful vice presidential bid as a Republican. Hilarious as shit.